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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme-UN-HABITAT is gearing towards hosting the first ever assembly in Nairobi from 27-31 May 2019.
This even as statistics indicate that 34 percent of Kenyan population live in urban areas with a 5 per... Read more

How do we produce and consume food whilst safeguarding our planet in view of around 9 billion people by 2050 and ongoing degradation of planetary resources? How do we handle the burden of infectious diseases accompanying these processes? The Global One Health course highlights approaches to human, animal and plant health using a transdiciplinary lens.

Registration for the 5th annual Smart and Healthy Transport in Cities international conference has begun! Take advantage of our discount and register now.
WHEN: 9th April 2019 – 10th April 2019 all-day
WHERE: Parkhotel Pilsen
U Borského parku 2791/31301 00 Plzeň 3-Jižní PředměstíCzechia
You have plenty to look forward to: we are consulting with a number of interesting personalities and are... Read more

Join us at NTNU Trondheim (Norway) to explore and appropriate an integrated and participatory planning approach in research and practice in the masters programme on Urban Ecological Planning. Deadline for applications for non-European students 1 December. No tuition fees! More info at

The architecture of all Africities Summits aims to address major questions based on the construction of the 2063 Vision of Africa with debate proposed by the African Union Commission.
From November 20 -24, 2018, the Africities 8 Summit will be hosted in Marrakech, with over 5000 participants. The latter will represent all the stakeholders of African local life as well as their partners from other... Read more

We all want to create liveable cities in which people thrive and prosper, but how to make that ideal come true? The Liveable City’s opening seminar focuses on the political process of moving from vision to action, bringing in experiences from recent years where Danish cities as well as cities around the world have undergone a remarkable transformation. Here, examples of successful project... Read more

In the framework of the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the European Commission’s CIVITAS Initiative and the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) on behalf of the Paris Process on Mobility and Climate (PPMC) are jointly organizing the Transport Day 2018 “Urban mobility solutions to... Read more

Passenger numbers in public transport are in decline, and private car use has become embedded in our culture over the past few decades as the go-to mode of getting from A to B. This has contributed to congestion, poor air quality and increasing carbon emissions in our urban centres. Reducing traffic on our roads and encouraging citizens to use cleaner transport options is increasingly important... Read more

For the seventh time, the Smart City Expo, the leading specialist trade show for the issues of energy and sustainability, mobility and transport, urban planning and safety will take place in the Gran Via Exhibition Centre.
Since 2011, experts from city administration, companies, start-ups, research centres and action groups have been meeting at the trade show to present, to learn, to share, to... Read more

Following the success of the first EUROCITIES Mayors Summit in 2017, we are organising a second in Brussels from 20-21 March 2019 to discuss critical European issues including citizen engagement.
The second Mayors Summit will bring together local, national and European leaders to discuss the role of cities in the future of Europe, with a special focus on citizen engagement and young people. Also... Read more